I'm not one to gloat. But seriously, for the past 25+ years, it seems like virtually all my gearhead friends have found some ridiculous deal on a nice piece of gear, while in my usual search for cool, old gear, I never find anything at a good price. But last week, I managed to pick up an Oberheim Matrix-6R for $80. So you'll excuse me if I finally gloat.
Anyway, in the interest of doing something more than gloating like a douchebag, I thought I would take this opportunity to gather some helpful links related to the Oberheim Matrix-6/6R/1000...
• For some reason, a lot of synth manufacturers during the mid-late 80's decided it would be a good idea to include their parameter and programming values printed on top of their rack gear. Of course, once you place it in a rack or put another piece of gear on top of it, you can no longer remember which parameter is which. So here is a print-out of the parameters for an Oberheim Matrix6/6R/1000.
• Here are the original factory presets originally loadable via the cassette interface, saved as a WAV file.
• Download the manual here.
• I haven't tried this yet, but here is a computer-based editor for these synths for OSX users....
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...i suggest: http://www.jsynthlib.org/
includes the 800 Matrix-1000 factory presets, as well
Matrix was my primary synth for years (I used to have two!). I still use it occasionally. Hit me up if you want service manual, schematics.
After 25 years you have earned full rights to DB gloating. Congrats to you.
~W~
I have one too although it cost considerably more. It has no output from the right rear jack and I am hoping to god it's just a bad solder joint or op-amp and not the voice board. I have downloaded the user manual, but really need a schematic for this. Any resources for this?
Philbillie, I have the same problem, but can find a schematic for the output circuitry. I can find a lot of schematics for the different sections, but not output. If you still get sound from both channels of your headphone output like I do then the problem should not be the voice board.
Jeff
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I bought a keyboard version of matrix 6 for 50€.
Since this was for gloating... =)
Pretty worthwhile data, lots of thanks for your post.
Quite useful data, thank you for this article.
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